On the morning of November 21, the National Assembly discussed the pilot implementation of commercial housing projects and opinions on land and housing prices were raised. Real estate prices are skyrocketing; the poor, workers, low-income earners, and civil servants find it very difficult to buy.
According to delegate Nguyen Cong Long: "People calculate that for a civil servant who does not eat anything, it will take hundreds of years to buy a house." Mr. Long pointed out negative consequences such as land speculation, buying land waiting for the price to increase, and collecting agricultural land. Therefore, we must pay attention to preventing risks and ensuring healthy development. Do not let the situation of collecting rice fields, forest land, and production land to legalize violations.
What delegate Nguyen Cong Long said is somewhat true. Recently, Tuyen Quang revoked 9,363 land use right certificates because they were issued for forestry land, public land, or not in accordance with the current status. They were issued incorrectly and then legalized with red books.
It is necessary to prevent interest groups from dividing resources, doing real estate projects and then pushing prices up to the sky. There must be appropriate policies for a healthy real estate market.
But for civil servants to have a house, it is not necessary to go without food for hundreds of years, but to reform the administration and streamline the apparatus. When there are only 1/3 - 1/4 of the current number of civil servants and public employees, salaries will double or triple. Buying a house is not difficult.
In order for people to have housing, many policies of the Government are needed, depending on each target group, there is appropriate support. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has just signed and issued Official Dispatch 117/CD-TTg dated November 18, 2024, requesting the People's Committees of centrally-run provinces and cities to focus on directing the immediate disbursement of supported resources, mobilized to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in the area.
As for social housing development programs, if localities implement them well, 1 million houses for workers will be provided from 2021 to 2030.
Not to mention, many programs to clear houses on canals, such as Ho Chi Minh City will build a large-scale project to relocate all of the more than 46,500 houses located on and along canals.
There are many types of houses: villas, luxury apartments, cheap apartments, bungalows... If you want to buy a house that is too big or too fancy, it will cost you hundreds of years of salary. But if you buy a normal house, just enough for living, anyone who works hard can buy it.
Therefore, it is not fair to say that it takes civil servants hundreds of years to buy a house.
